My desire is to grapple together here over how well off we are with God through Christ,
and to live from His opinion of us.

Thursday, May 03, 2012

Visible Fake-Outs

We’re looking at the wrong place.

Although we are to no longer regard anyone from a worldly point of view (2 Corinthians 5:16), we still fall prey to the temporary temptation—even with ourselves. When we see our failures, struggles, and shortcomings, we begin to believe we are truly a mess in need of a lot of changes. What’s wrong with that? Soon we’ll become fascinated and fixated with ourselves instead of God. And that’s tragic. Preoccupation with ourselves is on the way in, and the awe of God, who lives within us, is on the way out.

Transfixed by the visible, the practical relevance of the invisible will slip away, and eternal truth will begin to miss the mark of the heart. We’ll begin to implore God to work on us, our misplaced faith missing the fact that He already has.